Since our goal with Funder Profiles is to keep you informed of Canada’s greatest change-making funding bodies, it’s prudent that we feature one of Canada’s largest, oldest and most progressive private foundations.
Funder Profiles #5: Canadian Women’s Foundation
Funder Profiles #3: Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund
To observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the focus of today’s Funder Profiles is the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund - an organization that “aims to build cultural understanding and create a path toward reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples”. We encourage everyone to support them and visit their website to explore different ReconciliACTIONs each of us can take to create positive change in Canada.
Funder Profiles #2: The Peter Gilgan Foundation
Funder Profiles #1: The Laidlaw Foundation
Introducing our Funder Profiles series – a new feature in our Sustainable Solutions Blog that will acquaint inquisitive grant-seekers with the mandates, interests and crucial information about funding sources from across Canada. For our inaugural piece, we feature one of Ontario’s largest and most comprehensive private foundations – the Laidlaw Foundation.
Five Important Variables Affecting Funding Decisions By Private Foundations
Identifying which foundations may support your charity and its work can be an overwhelming and frustrating experience for those who are new to the process. In this Sustainable Solutions Blog entry, we explore five (5) variables that we should monitor to assess which private foundations are most likely to support our charity’s programs, capital projects and other initiatives.
